Critical Approaches to Cypriot and Wider Mediterranean Archaeology

Sturt W. Manning

This volume brings together scholars to reflect on the work of Professor A. Bernard Knapp and on some of the challenges thrown down in his extensive scholarship. Knapp is a central figure in the pre and proto-history of the Mediterranean in the last generation, and the essays in this volume will be...

Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity

Alex R. Knodell, Thomas P. Leppard

This volume considers regional approaches to social complexity from a variety of perspectives and at a global scale. John F. Cherry has been a key figure in regional-scale inquiry and broader disciplinary interfaces throughout his career, producing, mentoring, and inspiring a remarkably diverse body...

Honey from a Weed

Patience Gray

Winner of a special special award by the André Simon Book Prize committee in 1987

This book is perhaps the jewel in the Prospect Books' crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times t...

Archestratus

Archestratus

John Wilkins

This remarkable and almost unique work was written in the 4th century BC by the poet Archestratus, from Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily. The complete text has vanished but these fragments come from a much later book by Athenaeus. Archestratus’ description of the foods, particularly fish, available...